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Former Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, will specialize in renewable energy during a one-year fellowship at Stanford Law School, in sharp contrast to the lobbying path many former lawmakers interested in oil and gas take.

As anxiety grows over Japan's troubled effort to stem the release of radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the Senate hears from experts on the situation and on steps to improve safety at nuclear plants in the United States.

February 19, 2011, Saturday

The Obama budget seeks royalty payments from new efforts to mine gold, silver, copper and other metals on public lands. Unlike oil, coal and natural gas companies, hard-rock miners have not been subject to such payments.